Marigold is back to spending too much time in the house, after a few weeks of normality and back to laying. I removed her yesterday afternoon to make her go outside when no egg had arrived after 3 hours, picked her up and put her out on the grass with the others. Returned to the run to find a broken egg on the step! It must have popped out and dropped when I was carrying her, good thing it didn't break inside her as the shells are getting quite thin near the end of this lay. I think the best thing would be to nip it in the bud by putting her out in the grass run with my non- laying hen, which worked last time combined with two nights in the sin bin. But if she's still laying I wonder if it's unkind not to give her anywhere to lay her egg. So I agree it's best to break them when you see the first signs, but if shes still laying and presumably trying to build a clutch why does she start sitting? She's looking really tatty too, due for a moult though not shedding feathers yet.
